Paint Performance Horse ​Super Stakes

Trainers

Trainers

Earnest Wilson

2017 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEEEarnest Wilson of Tolar, Texas has been training equine for the past 40 years. He is most notably known for his outstanding successes in training Champion Paint Horses. He is the only person to have trained and shown 24 APHA Superior All-Around horses. In addition to earning two Supreme Champion Awards, 131 APHA Champion Awards and 156 World, Nation and Reserve Championships with Paint Horses.

Wilson has served the APHA association as a member of the Regional Club, General Show and Contest Rules, Progress, Occupation and Human Resources, Professional Horseman’s, Breed Improvement and Amateur Committees. He has also been an APHA director, an approved judge and West Texas- New Mexico Paint Horse Club President for 11 years. In the show ring,

Wilson was the first to ride horses to the APHA World Show’s High-Point All around Horse Award three years in a row, and High-Point Western Horse honors for four consecutive years, in addition, Wilson is a three-time winner of the Oscar Crigler Cattle Award.

Wilson developed and founded the Paint Performance Horse Super Stakes (PPHSS), which is the championship event of a series of shows. Wilson trains Western Pleasure, Trail, Cutting, Reining, Working Cow, Roping, Halter and English. He has experience in starting colts for the track and buggy. Available for seminars and clinics.